Extra Credit - A newsletter for accounting educators

Follow these tips to make all students more welcome in your classroom.

This year’s Cook Prize winners share their best teaching advice.

Susan Wolcott, CPA, Ph.D., recommends some practical ways to determine what stage of cognitive development your students have reached.

Students in the “Perpetual Analyzer” stage of critical thinking development struggle with prioritizing evidence and coming to conclusions. Learn about some practical classroom exercises that can help them move past these roadblocks.

It’s a new year, and you’re getting started with a fresh group of teaching assistants. When all goes well, your relationship with your TAs can benefit both of you.

Take a look at how dramatically accounting education has changed in the past four years.

Faculty at all levels of experience often report feeling a little anxious at the beginning of a new semester. Here are some tips on how to overcome the butterflies and get a new class off to a great start.

Learn practical strategies you can use to encourage students in the “biased jumper” stage to become more tolerant of ambiguity.

Accounting faculty have come up with some helpful tactics to get students to read this important document.

Because Confused Fact-Finders believe that all problems can be solved correctly, they are highly resistant to the idea that they must reach their own conclusions.

Follow these five tips to help students far from home fit in.

Learn about the stages of critical thinking to help accounting students develop skills needed for professional success.

In this project that promotes critical thinking and collaboration, students work in groups to develop and research a driving question. Instructions and a sample timeline are included.

Seasoned faculty members offer their best advice for putting evaluations in the proper perspective and using them to improve your teaching.